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Middle school basic operations simulations under $5
Budget Spreadsheet Project (personal finance & math skills)
A step-by-step project with detailed instructions on how to set up an Excel spreadsheet budget. Students will apply math skills in context of a real-life budgeting situation.
Students will create a budget:
-Based on their future career choice.
-Independently by following the instructions using an Excel Spreadsheet.
-Over the course of at least 2 class periods (typically students take at least 2.5 hours to complete this project).
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Grades:
6th - 12th
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Project Based Learning: Measurement Conversions, Math and Language Skills
Engage your students with this fun project! Students work in teams or individually to design a dog house. A variety of math skills are practiced including area,volume, measurement conversions, addition, subtraction, and multiplication. ELA skills are also integrated as students write persuasive letters and give oral presentations on their creations. Giving students relevant contexts to apply skills is a meaningful way for students to construct conceptual understanding and see a useful appli
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Grades:
4th - 6th
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Also included in: Project Based Learning Bundle for Dog Lovers
Percents: Understanding Credit Card Debt Worksheet for Student - Scenario 1
The question listed on Scenario 1 is as follows:
"In this scenario we purchased 1 item for $1000. (This could be a new TV, summer vacation, Laptop, etc.) We did not have the cash at the time so we charged it to our Visa. This particular credit card requires that we make a minimum payment of 13% each month. It also has an APR of 10%. Fill out the chart to find out how much you have paid at the end of the year and if you have a remaining balance. "
The chart is a great way for students to disc
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Grades:
7th - 10th
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The Game of Life | Math Exploration
PURPOSE: This simulation gives your math class a chance to experience what it is like to be an adult. Students will be randomly assigned a job and a family and be required to calculate a month’s worth of expenses.This activity brings up some great discussions about how money works, what happens when the money runs out, single parenting, managing a budget and so much more. This is such a useful resource for the modern middle school mathematics teacher!WHAT’S INCLUDED:This product contains:✏️ 18 p
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5th - 8th
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SONAR Calculations and Graphing
In this classroom activity, students are guided through the calculations necessary to obtain ocean depth from SONAR data. Then they use data to complete a profile of the part of ocean floor from which the data came. Please note: this does not show all the parts of the ocean floor. Image and activity where adapted from Naval History STEM H.
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Grades:
6th - 12th
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The Chocoloate Shop: Project Based Learning
Engage your students in a fun relevant project creating and managing a chocolate shop. A variety of skills are used in this project including basic math skills such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Fractions, percents, and measurement conversions are also used. Students engage in language arts skills as well such as reading direcitons, writing, and creative art. Use this project over the course of a week, individually, partners, or cooperative groups; the possibilities
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Project Based Learning Bundle
Dream Home: Utilizing Money, Area, Perimeter, and Conversion
STEM UNIT: Becoming an architect may seem so wonderful, but students may think twice after designing, building, and repairing problems in their new home. This is a unit that allows students to use a combination of math skills and critical thinking to be the architect of their own dream home on a budget. The students will engage in researching architecture of homes and house plans, designing their house plan, purchasing materials and labor, and dealing with problems along the way. The skills used
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5th - 8th
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Profit & Loss Lemonade Stand Roleplay Game (Supply & Demand Lessons too)
Teach Profit & Loss (and Supply & Demand) through a fun game that students will enjoy. Also included in this pack is a fun auction lesson to teach supply & demand. I wanted to teach my students about profit and loss and give them an experience learning how a business works before they created their own. I wanted them to learn:- How to plan/organize what they need to buy- Keep a profit/loss record (doing the math themselves)- About borrowing/repaying loans (with interest that grows ov
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Grades:
5th - 12th
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My Budget Project
This is a great end of year math project! You can give students a career with a realistic salary and challenge them to create a monthly budget. Each slide will need to depict a different monthly cost like rent, car payment, etc. This will give the students a good real life look into the cost of living. At the end of the slides, there is an example project for to show students.
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Grades:
8th - 11th
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Earth Day Festival Project Based Learning
Engage your students in this fun and relevant project where students plan an Earth Day Festival. The project begins with a mini Web Quest designed to give student some background on Earth Day. After that, students work to determine a budget for the different activities at the festival and then present their plan and budget to the "city council". ( A grading rubric is included for the presentation.) Some Earth Day activities are already proposed, while other activities can be developed by the
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Project Based Learning Bundle
Checking Account Simulation
Do you need a lesson to teach students how to balance a checkbook? A PowerPoint presentation is included instructs students on how to balance their own checkbook and then gives them some "real world" practice. The PowerPoint includes writing a check, using a debit card, and making deposits. Also included is the handouts that you will give students in order for them to participate in the simulation. One handout is a checkbook register and the other handout has blank checks that students will writ
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Scholarship Project Based Learning - Adding & Subtracting Decimals
Congratulations! Your students are awarded a set amount of money to spend to decorate their college dorm room. The activity includes:
* Step by Step Instructions
* Balance Sheet
* Sample Checks
* Additional Earning Opportunities
* Differentiation Suggestions
* Teacher Tips
* Rubric
With this problem based learning activity, your students will have practice adding and subtracting decimals, balancing a check registry, writing checks, planning a budget, shopping for the best deal, and man
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Grades:
5th - 8th
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Distributive Property: Changing Expressions
This 22-slide PowerPoint presentation demonstrates how to use common factors and the distributive property to change an expression. Addition problems involving whole numbers are changed into a multiplication problem which is the product of the greatest common factor of the addends and the sum of two whole numbers that have no GCF other than "1". The content is based on 6th grade Common Core standard: CCSS.Math.Content.6.NS.B.4. The presentation takes about 30 minutes, but time considerations dep
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Grades:
6th
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Field Day! Project Based Instruction
Engage your students with this fun project! Students work independently or in cooperative groups to plan a Field Day. A variety of math skills are practiced including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, area, measurement conversions, working with money and problem solving. . ELA skills are also integrated as students write descriptive essays and give oral presentations on their proposals. Giving students relevant contexts to apply skills is a meaningful way for students to const
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Project Based Learning Bundle
Vocational Support- Calculating Gross Pay
Whether individuals participate in competitive employment or sheltered employment, they need to be able to calculate their pay. Individuals can be paid in a variety of ways: hourly, by piece, commission, or salary. For this resource, I have chosen to focus on hourly pay. In the next few weeks I will publish other resources with piece pay, commission and salary. I will also be publishing work that relates to deductions and net pay. This is a great transition activity and can also be tied to vocat
Grades:
7th - 12th, Adult Education
Also included in: Vocational Support Bundle
Caribbean Economy Simulation (Supply and Demand/Single Crop)
In this simulation, students will play the role of Plantation owner and will try to grow their sugarcane empire through buying and selling fields, paying workers' wages and government taxes, and reaping the profit after each harvest. However, it also demonstrates the law of supply and demand and teaches a lesson about diversifying your economy as the price of sugarcane fluctuates on the world market from harvest to harvest. Students wait in breathless anticipation as each harvest price is reveal
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Grades:
6th - 9th
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Election 2016: Voting and Presidents
This interactive unit helps students become familiar with the democratic process of voting through relevant math and language arts activities. Here's what's included:
Activity 1: The Campaign Trail: A budget is set for campaigning. Students use basic math skills to choose campaign strategies.
Activity 2: If I Were President: Students write about what they would do if they were president.
Activity 3: Design a Button: Students get creative and design a campaign button.
Activity 4: Man
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
English, Spanish and Bilingual Reward Money - Dinero de Recompenza
recompenza / reward / money / coupons / cupones / classroom management / manejo de grupo / owl / buho / dual language / ESL / early childhood math skills / habilidades matematicas para estudiantes jovenes / math manipulatives
This is a packet of Owl Themed Reward Money that comes in English, Spanish and Bilingual (English and Spanish) versions, so you can use this resource in a regular, bilingual / Dual Language or ESL classroom!
I use reward money as an important part of my classroom manageme
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PreK - 6th
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Tape Diagrams: Computing Parts of a Whole
This PowerPoint presentation serves as an introduction to solving problems that involve finding parts of a whole by using tape diagrams. The process is clearly explained and modeled including examples using fractions and percents converted to fractions. The product can be used as an interactive class lesson or for individual student use due to absence or remediation. The amount of time spent using this presentation will vary depending on the teacher's usage of stopping points and/or student inte
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Grades:
6th
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Decimal Operations: Let's Go on a Road Trip
I created this road trip simulation as an end of unit activity to bring decimal operations to life for my students. Calculations involving money is just one way that students will interact with decimals in the real world.I use this activity in my fifth grade classroom, but the difficulty level could be adjusted to fit the needs of the students in your grade level. For example, teachers could incorporate rates (7th grade) by inviting students to calculate the gallons of gas necessary for the tr
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Grades:
5th - 6th
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Christmas on a Budget
COMMON CORE ALIGNED! This is a project to be used around the holiday season. It teaches students the value of a budget in a real-world setting. They will look through sales flyers and use the attached worksheets to record their ideas and shopping lists. They will also make decimal calculations. The file contains a four page document with teacher instructions and worksheets for students to use to record their ideas, calculations, and final shopping list.
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4th - 6th
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Life Science - Natural Selection and Adaptations of Ocean Organisms
This Life Science lab investigation explores natural selection and adaptations of ocean organisms. The lab is directly tied to NGSS expectations (MS-LS4-4, MS-LS4-6).
INCLUDES:
• A one-page teacher guide with NGSS connections.
• A blank student-page with procedure, data table, and analysis questions.
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Grades:
7th - 10th
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Expressions & Equations: Very Small & Very Large Numbers
What more exciting way to discuss very small and very large numbers than with outer space as the backdrop?Students will use numbers expressed in the form of a single digit times an integer power of 10 to estimate very large or very small quantities, and to express how many times as much one is than the other.Provide feedback and get TPT credit on future purchases:***Go to your My Purchases page. Click on the Provide Feedback button beside each purchase. You will be taken to a page where you can
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Grades:
6th - 8th
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Make Your Own Company
I came up with the idea of creating a company as a form of authentic intellectual work. Fortunately for me, my principal officially observed me during this particular lesson and told me later that he taught it was “exceptional”. I hope you can use it in your classroom so the students can use their creativity and learn math at the same time. There’s a broad range of mathematical value that can be associated to this lesson including, but not limited to:
Ordering decimals
Adding decimals
Subtractin
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Grades:
4th - 8th
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